ENGL 2122/Fall 2021/Schedule

Introduction	Requirements	Policies	Schedule	Instructor

This schedule represents the ideal outline for our study this semester. Yet, like all best-laid plans, we may not be able to keep up with our agenda. Please be flexible and try to look and read ahead whenever possible.

We will do our best to stick by this schedule, but I will inform you verbally, via an email, and/or a literal change to the schedule below whenever there is a deviation. Getting these updates is solely your responsibility. Therefore, this schedule is tentative and subject to change contingent upon the needs of the students and the professor, and dictated by time and other constraints which may affect the course. For face-to-face classes, this schedule reflects only an overview of the assigned reading and other major course assignments. It may not indicate specific class session assignments or activities. Specific in-class assignments may not be reflected on the schedule.

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Each week of this class has its own unit or lesson corresponding to a literary movement. Each week is divided into daily work that contain readings (with the occasional reading quiz) and writing. Each week concludes with a test on the materials covered. The following is a general overview of the schedule.

Daily Work

As this is a session course and time is limited, here’s how I recommend your proceed: work every day. Put aside at least an hour on every class day, and

1. Read the primary texts (these are assigned below in individual class days) taking notes as you do, maybe highlighting passages that speak to you in some way;
2. Read some secondary texts: i.e., do some research on at least one of the texts, being sure you understand the major themes, symbols, etc.;
3. Write a response (see Writing) on what you think about the text(s), supporting it with evidence from both the primary and secondary texts. I give some suggestions below for potential responses, but these are really up to you. You should write a minimum of two posts per lesson (or week). A day is set aside each week for your unit tests and responses. You should have your responses done before then, so that day may be devoted to the test.

The idea here is that you engage with the course materials in a consistent way. Not all of it will speak to you, and that’s fine. However, you must actively engage the materials and show that engagement in your weekly work.

Schedule

Date	Assignment
The Early Romantic Period
6 October	Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30 Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Romantic Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
7 October	William Blake From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction” “The Lamb” “The Little Black Boy” “The Chimney Sweeper” “The Divine Image” From Songs of Experience: “Introduction” “The Chimney Sweeper” “The Tyger” “The Sick Rose” “London” Respond: Compare two poems, one from the Songs of Innocence and one from the Songs of Experience.
8 October	Ashford, Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” “I wandered lonely as a cloud” “I travelled among unknown men” “The World is too much with us” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “Kubla Khan” “Christabel” “Dejection: An Ode”
11 October	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication on the Rights of Women
12 October	Test #1 and Response
The Late Romantic Period
13 October	George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” “Darkness”
14 October	Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” “To a Sky-Lark”
15 October	Joseph Severn, Portrait of John Keats John Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “When I have fears that I may cease to be” “Ode to a Nightingale” “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
18 October	Elizabeth Barrett Browning Selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese
19 October	Test #2 and Response
The Victorian Period
20 October	Introduction to Victorian Literature Editor’s Introduction, pp. 527–551 Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Victorian Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
21 October	Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” “The Lotos-Eaters” “Ulysses” Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” “The Windhover”
22 October	Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” “Porphyria’s Lover” Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” From The Study of Poetry Christina Rossetti “Goblin Market”
25 October	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
26 October	Test #3 and Response
Victorian / Edwardian / World War I
27 October	Introduction to the Twentieth Century Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042 Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the the turn of the century’s trends in literature. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in works of this period?
28 October	Rudyard Kipling “The Man Who Would Be King”
29 October	E. M. Forster “The Machine Stops” “Tolerance” James Joyce “Araby”
1 November	Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” Siegfried Sassoon ‘They’” “The Rear Guard” “The General” “Glory of Women” Wilfred Owen “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” “Dulce Et Decorum Est” “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
2 November	Test #4 and Response
Modernism
3 November	Hulewicz, Leda and the Swan (1928) William Butler Yeats “Leda and the Swan” “The Second Coming” “Sailing to Byzantium”
4 November	T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
5 November	W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
8 November	Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
9 November	Test #5 and Response
World War II / Postmodernism
10 November	Philip Larkin “The Mower” “Talking in Bed” Seamus Heany “Digging” “Clearances” “Punishment” “The Skunk”
11 November	Nadine Gordimer “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
12 November	Margaret Atwood “Death by Landscape”
15 November	Salman Rushdie “The Prophet’s Hair”
29 November	Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
30 November	Test #6 and Response; Short Lit Crit Response due

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